Japan’s precipitous population decline shows no sign of slowing, with the nation shrinking by more than 900,000 people last year – the biggest annual drop on record, according to government data. The ...

Deaths in Japan outnumbered births by 900,000 last year, the largest population fall on record. The country’s population is down to 120 million, having declined for 16 consecutive years. Nearly 30% of ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s total population declined for the 15th straight year in 2023, dropping by more than a half-million people as the population ages and births remain low. Births in Japan hit a ...

The birth rate in Japan continued to decline in the first half of this year, deepening a trend Tokyo says will be irreversible by the next decade. Asia's second-largest economy faces a severe ...

TOKYO -- A photo exhibition by Naoko Sakokawa, who documented the "Shinjuku cardboard village" -- a community that welcomed ...

Japan’s population is shrinking faster than ever, with nearly a million more deaths than births in 2024 – the steepest decline since records began in 1968. New figures released by the Ministry of ...